> How do you perceive hardware RAID as better than Linux's software > RAID? Software RAID will work if you move the disks to a different > system. Software RAID uses negligible CPU and memory bandwidth. > Software RAID gets regular bug fixes for free when you upgrade > your distro.
The system in question is, um cough, not, cough, running, cough, linux, cough, cough. Whew. Who said that? Anyway.... On Linux I find software raid good for most simple setups and it has gotten SO much better than it was in the past. I still occastionally have problems with raid 1 arrays, especially when combined with LVM, that contain /boot, but most of they time it's fine. I still try to stick with true (processor and cache) hardware based raid controllers for raid 5 arrays or where I need better monitoring, or where I need super fast performance no matter what the system is doing. When I get a few minutes I'm going to tackle finding a hotswap sata cage and getting the whole thing to work... Anybody have an experience with hotswap + sata? Comments? Garl _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
